S04E14 – The Taad That Got Away – Goodbye Iowa

Well hey there! Season 4 episode 14 is here and full of “The Initiative” drama, for better or worse. Willow and Xander have kind of taken a back seat for the last couple of weeks while Buffy and Taad (Riley) fell head first into an ocean of plot devices. We meet Adam, our weird pseudo-technabomination monster, and son(?) of the recently murdered Maggie Walsh. Also, Taad is apparently addicted to some buff-dude meds and started abusing all of his friends? Whadda guy. Thanks for listening!

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S04E13 – A Murder of Bros – The I in Team

Hey there lovely listeners! This week we really start to dig into the nitty gritty of The Initiative. Well….Buffy does, and doesn’t exactly include the rest of the Scooby gang until it’s pretty much too late. But we have our own things going on and we don’t need any testosterone fueled arm punches to be happy. At least, that’s what we tell ourselves. Thanks for listening!

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S04E12 – Guy Fieri Demon – A New Man

Hey there, listeners! Did you miss us? Because we definitely missed y’all. Thank you again to Kyle and Nile from It Gets Weird for stepping in for our mid-season movie episode and hopefully our episode in their feed was able to tide you over during our break week. We are back with season 4 episode 12, and it’s time to get some dirty deets on Taad (Riley) and his G.I. Joe crew, “The Initiative”. Giles get’s a few cold shoulders and we even get another visit from our old….pal?…enemy?…anyway, it’s Ethan. Thanks for listening!

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S04E11 – Alabama Slamma – Doomed

Welcome back, listeners! Season 4 episode 11 is in the bag and we all learned a lot. We learned that Spike can beat the crap out of monsters, just not human people. For all of his shortcomings, Spike knows what he likes, and what he likes is hedonistic violence. We also learn that Taad (Riley) and Buffy are an item? I think we learned that. The show doesn’t quite know how to make up its mind on that front. Thanks for listening!

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S04E10 – Boreanaz Fan Girl – Hush

Season 4 episode 10 is here and it was SO GOOD! The name of the episode is “Hush”, which might ring a bell for those long time Buffy fans out there. When two creepy, suited demons and their legion of straight-jacketed minions curse Sunnydale with muteness, we get to see how Joss holds up with no witty banter. Willow meets a new witch friend and the gang gets some TA Taad (Riley) confirmations. Those confirmations come in the form of a laser gun?! Thanks for listening!

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S04E09 – You Woke, Tadd – Something Blue

There is more than one way to heal a broken heart, friends! You could wait it out. You could binge watch The Great British Baking Show. You could unknowingly use dangerous magics to cause pain and chaos, thus attracting the attention of a council of vengeance demons. All valid and reasonable options. This week Willow does one of those things, but I’m not saying which. Thanks for listening!

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S04E08 – Plenty of Werefish in the Sea – Pangs

It’s Thanksgiving Day for our friends in Sunnydale, so grab your silverware and your culturally insensitive opinions on the celebration of Native American genocide! If we still haven’t gotten it right in 2018 what are the chances we got it right in the year 2000? But bless em, they tried(ish). Producer James and Brian both step in to give voices to Giles and Angel respectively and we thank em for it! It’s a packed episode so thank you for listening.

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S04E07 – I’m a Normie – The Initiative

Hello and welcome to season 4 episode 7! Oz may have left us, but luckily we get some new boy action in here to fill the gap. Spike and Taad (Riley) both make a pretty big showing this week, both with their own agenda. Taad wants to court our very own Buffy while Spike is more on the “draining Willow of blood” side of things. But hey, that’s just Sunnydale for ya. Thanks for listening!

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S04E06 – Chugga Chugga Boo Hoo – Wild at Heart

This week is a Willow and Oz episode… You know what that means, right? And no, it’s not “a new celebration of a beautiful romance”. A huge thank you to our good friend Nile from the It Gets Weird podcast for reprising his role as Oz this week! It’s always hard to have your heart broken, but it stings less when coming from a friend. I think.

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S04E05 – Tiptoeing Around Murder – Beer Bad

Buffy is still suffering from a serious case of Post-Parker Depression this week and needs to unwind. Luckily, her good buddy Xander just got a job at a local college bar and is primed with words from the heart. All the while, a new “cute musician girl” is lulling the boys of the Bronze into some kind of lusty stare based coma, and Willow isn’t happy about it. Thanks for listening!

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